Suarez Gets Additional 3-Game Ban for Spitting Incident

Inter Miami striker Luis Suarez has been handed an further three-game suspension for spitting astatine a subordinate of the Seattle Sounders staff. Following the caller League Cup last decision connected 31 August, the Leagues Cup Disciplinary Committee imposed a six-match ban, applicable solely to aboriginal iterations of that tournament.

Now, Major League Soccer has imposed a further three-match ban, meaning Suarez volition beryllium unavailable for Inter Miami’s upcoming fixtures against Charlotte FC, DC United, and Seattle successful their home competition. Miami suffered a 3-0 nonaccomplishment successful the League Cup last astatine Lumen Field successful Seattle, igniting a confrontation wherever Suarez was seen grabbing Sounders midfielder Obed Vargas earlier spitting astatine information manager Gene Ramirez.
In an Instagram post, Suarez expressed remorse, saying, “It was a infinitesimal of overmuch hostility and frustration, wherever conscionable aft the crippled ended, things happened that shouldn’t person happened, but that doesn’t warrant my reaction. I made a mistake and sincerely apologise. It’s not the representation I privation to springiness successful beforehand of my family, who endure due to the fact that of my mistakes, and successful beforehand of my club, who besides don’t merit to endure due to the fact that of thing similar this.”

The Uruguayan guardant has a past of disciplinary issues, having received an eight-match prohibition from the Football Association successful 2011 for racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, alongside 3 erstwhile bans for biting incidents during his clip astatine Ajax, Uruguay, and Liverpool.